<p>Is it possible for me to major in comp sci and then going to med school?</p>
<p>the reason I ask is I'm fascinated and love programming, but only want to do it as a hobby. I really can't envision myself being at the computer 24/7 forever.</p>
<p>There's no reason you couldn't do it. In fact, the computer science major has a science requirement, so you could fulfill some of your pre-med requirements at the same time. However, computer science is one of the most time-intensive majors, and if you took pre-med classes as well, you wouldn't have too much extra time to take other classes that interest you.</p>
<p>I woud not do it. Most MD admissions are from BS sciences( Bio/phy/chem). But eng folks do get in through Chemical, Bio-med/bio-chem as well as electrical. It will force you to research in area involving heath/medicine and engineering/computers.</p>
<p>Well, if you're going to be at Stanford, there's a major called Symbolic Systems... I know it requires a decent amount of CS classes as well as some neuro, etc. etc., so that might be something to look into.</p>
<p>As far as just being a CS major goes, I'd say listen to turtle but not baba. Plot out your courses and see how much time you would have for what -- I recently tried to figure out how I could do premed requirements as a physics major, and my course schedule was literally composed of physics, premed, and general education. And that's IT. If that doesn't bother you, then go for it, but if it does, consider doing something else.</p>
<p>I don't think you should pay as much attention to baba's objection, though. I remember back when I wanted to be a philosophy major, my dad would always look up statistics on med-school admissions rates for various majors, and philosophy did even better than bio! (That's, of course, because tons of bio majors applies to med school, but the pool of med-school philosophy majors is more self-selecting). So if you take the premed classes, get involved in bio research or a hospital or some sort of extracurricular that would make your interest and aptitude clear (both to med schools and to yourself), don't not major in CS just 'cause you're afraid it won't look good.</p>
<p>foloow the tropic girl, major in theology with med research the you will really stand out.</p>
<p>key thing is to coomunicate that you really want become MD, you major can help and not help it depends how you package it.</p>
<p>Baba, I can't understand what you are saying in these points. Next time, please be clearer for all of us. It would help. And don't offend the philosophy majors by calling it theology. There a gaping difference. Any intelligent person would know that. </p>
<p>Do whatever it is you love. Doing well will just be a natural result of that.</p>
<p>Look, I've known guys who get into med-school with English degrees, art degrees, and "American Studies" degrees (whatever the heck "American Studies" is). </p>
<p>The only thing I would caution you about the CS degree is that it tends to be hard, with lots of work and classes that give out lots of low grades, and the unfortunate truth seems to be that med-schools don't really care that certain majors are harder than others. They just want to see high grades and don't care how you got them as long as you got them. In other words, for the purposes of med-school admissions, it's better to take an easy, do-nothing class and get an A, then it is to take a difficult class and get a B. Like it or not, that's the way med-school admissions works.</p>